Re: FVWM: fvwm3? [on Wayland]

John McCue <[email protected]> Mon, 5 Feb 2024 09:42:07 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.fvwm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Feb 04, 2024 at 07:30:05PM +0100, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
>Anno domini 2024 Sun, 4 Feb 01:14:21 +0100
> Martin Cermak scripsit:
>> On  Sun  2024-02-04  09:51 , Stuart Longland wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> IMHO for FVWM to survive, the FVWM community needs to focus on
>> wayland.  And start from scratch...  I wish this happens.
>
>How many here have grey beards? I hope "somebody" (without grey
>beard but with a lot of time) makes a sane X11 emulation layer. On
>the other hand, OpenBSD is alive and has it's own heavily patched
>Xorg called Xenocara and they most likely won't let that go. So
>maybe porting Xenocara to linux is a better way to go.
>
>Nik

Actually I am hoping all the BSDs get together and maintain
Xenocara.  IIRC, Xenocara is maintained by taking patches from
Xorg and making adjustments.  So once/if those Xorg patches stop,
Xenocara will be on its own.

If the BSDs do this, then it may be possible to port to Linux :)

John